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This photo from the Curiosity Mars rover will make you feel tiny

By P. Kim Bui, Digital First Media

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02/06/2014 06:01:40 PM MST

This view of the twilight sky and Martian horizon taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover includes Earth as the brightest point of light in the night sky. Earth is a little left of center in the image, and our moon is just below Earth. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU)

NASA released one of the first images of Earth taken by the Curiosity Mars rover today.

The photo was taken on Jan. 31 just over an hour after Mars' sunset. It was taken with the left eye camera of Curiosity's Mast Camera.

What would Earth look like if we were standing on the Martian surface? According to NASA, you'd see ”Earth and the moon as two distinct, bright 'evening stars.'”

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